fly my pretties

The Loop collections (stacked-full CDs
of usually essential soulful electronica, sometimes a DVD with video
clips and short films) are often as artistically presented as their
classy contents (see the Fly My Pretties A Story CD/DVD package), and are an on-going archive of great New Zealand
sounds and images.
In the decade since their...

Prowse -- here with her debut album -- has probably crossed more people's paths than they might think: she has toured with Fly My Pretties, opened for Wanda Jackson and appeared on the excellent album Trouble on the Waterfront by her father Chris Prowse.
That is emblematic of her musical dexterity, and the fact she has the Phoenix...

Expat-Kiwi Jayson Norris has lived in London since 2004 and has, I am told, released two albums internationally before his Freedom Twenty Eight on New Zealand's Loop label -- which puts him in excellent company.
I'm not quite sure how this works out but his bio says he has seen him "sharing the stage with huge names such as Andrea...

Barnaby Weir out of Wellington, New Zealand, is best known as the man who steers the ambitious musical carnivals that are The Black Seeds and Fly My Pretties. But his 2011 debut solo album shows a very different side to his talents in songs which owe a debt to alt.country (and sometimes straight country) and have an emotional directness....